Formula Expert?

Post Author: mohamedsaleh70
CA Forum: Formula
Greetings,
I hope some expert would help me in this problem.
I created a report in VB 2005 Pro. Then, I tried to create a formula. I went to the Field Explorer and right clicked the Formula Fields.
I named it. But when The Formula workshop's Formula Expert opens, I found the (Custom Function Supplying Logic) Empty,
only an empty node (Report Custom Functions) without any contents.
How can I make it show ...The Repository Custom Functions..... and .....Crystal Repository..... Crystal ...etc.
Thanks for all friends.

Post Author: bryanflora
CA Forum: Formula
Custom functions means you have a central library for keeping those functions.Normally, it's BOE or CRS.But if you only have VB 2005 in hand, it's not possible to use custom functions. Bryan Tsou@Taiwan

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At this point, I was feeling very pleased with myself - but there is one more problem.
The sheet contains books that I have finished AND books that I have not finished yet. The books which I have finished are marked by a tick in the checkbox. I do not want books I haven't finished yet to be counted in my averages. So what I want to do is modify my formula so that it only counts values in rows where the box in the first column is ticked. I can't figure out how to do this, because the SUMIF and COUNTIF functions only allow you to put one condition in, and I need to put two conditions in - the genre and the checkbox.
In summary - I need a formula to calculate the average of the 'Pages Per Day' values, but only from rows where the genre is fantasy AND the box is ticked!
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There are many ways to think of this, but I think all of them require the introduction of an additional column in the first table. One way is for this new column to have 1's for the books you've finished and 0's for the books you haven't. This can be done with a formula like:
=IF(ISBLANK(EndDate),0,1)
Then, instead of using COUNTIF() in your averaging formulas, you can use SUMIF() on this new column. As such, perhaps you don't need the checkbox column any longer. This sounds redundant with the existence of an EndDate, and would save you the problem of checking and entering a date when you finished a book (and the potential for an inconsistency).
Another, perhaps more general approach, would be to have the new column have a formula like:
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Jamie Wiseman wrote:
or in the case of your report use this as the suppression formula...sorry again about the original code.
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The problem with this suppression is that for each Case Worker (Group) it is only pulling one client record forward, thus suppressing all other multiple unique clients associated with this caseworker.
What my original report (before your suggestions is this):
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I basically want it to suppress the first row (older treatment plan) for Client A and have it display like this in conjunction with all other unique clients:
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What your Section Expert + Summary Code did, was essentially this:
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Maximum
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Â Â Â Â - Kathryn Webster (Report Design Consultant)Â
Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Kat's News: http://diamond.businessobjects.com/blog/279

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Yes, you can do that with an "All" option in the parameter list.
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Post Author: testing123
CA Forum: Crystal Reports
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CA Forum: Crystal Reports
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